The Eastwood Branch is the brainchild of Jack Bulow who was the associate
director of BPL at the time. It was his idea to have a branch in a mall and
merchandise it like a bookstore. He convinced the director and the library board
to establish a branch at the Eastwood Mall, the southeast's first enclosed mall.
Opened in 1982, the Eastwood Branch has consistently had high circulation as a
popular materials library.